Heretic manual

The Heretic manual is an eight-page full-color fold-out brochure distributed by id Software along with registered copies of Heretic.

Overview
Pages of the manual are not numbered. For use in this article, the pages are numbered, from left to right, top row first, then bottom row. The reverse side of the manual contains a title screen image with logos of Raven Software and id Software, and can be used as a poster.

Introduction
The first two pages of the manual tell the Heretic's backstory with information about the Sidhe, Serpent Riders, and the player character.

Installing Heretic subsection includes:
 * system requirements;
 * information on how to install the game from floppy discs or CD;
 * information on how to use the setup program to configure the game.

Technical support subsection describes a number of ways to get support: using README file, calling by phone or sending a letter to id Software, or using the HELPME file.

The Heretic main menu
This section occupies upper part of page 3 and describes how to use the menu to start the new game, save and load games, quit the game, set options.

Your status
This section occupies lower part of page 3 and provides a description of the status bar with the picture. It also tells how to use the inventory.

Moving around in the world
This section occupies page 4 and gives the following information:
 * a description of the keyboard, mouse, and joystick controls;
 * how to pick up items, look up and down, and perform flight;
 * descriptions of certain game mechanics: a map, doors, teleporters, platforms, dangerous environments (damaging floors, crushing ceilings, wind or water currents, and sliding on ice), exiting the level, and dying.

Magical weapons and how to use them
This section occupies page 5. Brief descriptions (with pictures) are given for the following weapons: Staff, Gauntlets, Elvenwand, Crossbow, Dragon's Claw, Hellstaff, and Phoenix Rod.

The copyright notice is located at the bottom of the page.

Items and artifacts
This section occupies page 6. Brief descriptions (with pictures) are given for the following items and artifacts: Vial, Quartz Flask, Mystic Urn, Shield, Enchanted Shield, Torch, Map Scroll, Bag of Holding, Shadowsphere, Tyketto's Tome of Power, Valador's Ring of Invulnerability, Inhilicon's Wings of Wrath, Darchala's Chaos Device, Torpol's Morph Ovum, and Delmintalitar's Time Bomb of the Ancients.

Monsters you'll face
This section occupies page 7. Brief descriptions are given for the following monsters: gargoyle, fire gargoyle, golem, nitrogolem, undead warriors, sabreclaw, weredragon, Ophidian, and disciple of D'Sparil. For each of these a frame of the sprite is also shown. A presence of ghost variants of golem, undead warrior, and weredragon is also mentioned, although this is an error for the latter.

Multiplayer rules
This section occupies the upper part of page 8 and provides information about multiplayer mode: how to start and pause a game, saving and loading, talking, and exiting a level.

Cooperative or deathmatch play
This section occupies the lower part of page 8 and gives a thorough description of the multiplayer modes: cooperative and deathmatch.

Credits
The lower part of the last page contains a Credits section:
 * Artists: Shane Gurno, Brian Raffel, Steve Raffel, Brian Pelletier, Jim Sumwalt, Scott Rice
 * Programming: Ben Gokey, Chris Rhinehart
 * Level design: Michael Raymond-Judy
 * Sound/music: Kevin Schilder
 * Project director: Brian Raffel
 * Sound drivers: Paul Radek
 * Executive producer: John Romero
 * Main illustration: Brom
 * Package/manual design: Louis Saekow Design